Abject

After the fallout of an ancient battle caused torrents of Lazarus storms across the globe, the entire world has been thrown into abject chaos.

And as a bricks-and-mortar bookseller, Amazon was an abject failure.

Bassett’s abject failure to even pretend to be gracious wasn’t the best ad for her acting skills.

I have been with some of the millions of Palestinians living in abject poverty in refugee camps, or under a brutal military occupation in the West Bank with no hope in sight.

In late 2018, I documented what an abject failure the digital assistant had become.

I thought, “I can’t do this, but maybe I can help in other ways, so maybe what I should do is make a change immediately, and take someone out of abject trauma or poverty and abuse, and just offer them what you can.

Not a bad return for a decade of abject failure, a stadium with a leaky roof and a training ground stuck that hasn't been improved on since Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

Not only did I realize that my mom had an entire other life before my own, but that the family I'd grown up with and loved so much was capable of such abject apathy.

One cold misty morning in 1957, on a playing field in Hampshire where the soil was frozen underfoot, nine-year-old Prince Charles stood in abject misery.

On his part, a human right activist, Barrister Yetunde Onaifa, told our correspondents that it is unfortunate to continue to pay ex-governors with the state resources, when millions of people were languishing in abject poverty.

People can then continue to live in Taloyoak on or barely above the poverty line until they get sick and tired of the abject hopelessness and lack of opportunity and leave.

Senator McKim also accused the Department of Home Affairs of holding an "abject record" around transparency, probity and good governance.

The 2020 season was an abject disaster for the Red Sox, who were in full sell mode by the deadline.

The cabinet secretary cuts an even more abject figure.

The group further stated that for 15 years and counting, the Niger Delta militants have enjoyed an unprecedented patronage from the Nigerian Government, leaving them in the North in abject poverty and deprivation.

This is music to the ears of Chelsea fans, who have just witnessed an embarrassingly abject season, where the players’ work rate was regularly questioned under their various managers.

Vladimir Putin has led Russia to abject failure with his invasion of Ukraine the head of the Russian Wagner mercenary group has said in an astonishing outburst.

We can only hope Heinerscheid has learned some lessons from her abject failure, and that among them is the crucial value of humility.

When the Chinese government abruptly eased its draconian Covid-19 policies in December, I felt an uncanny combination of abject horror and relief.

While constitutional bodies like the judiciary or the Election Commission have been tamed or threatened, the most abject surrender facilitating an authoritarian turn of governance has been by the bureaucracy and investigating agencies.